There is an image, but no life...

The citizens of the Russian Federation have not yet had time to recover from optimization, “creation of 25 million jobs,” “implementation of the old May decrees of the President”... And suddenly a new attack...

The “gift” to the Russians for the 2018 FIFA World Cup turned out to be “super surprise.” He not only puzzled the Russians, but simply shocked them! They want to refuse such a “gift”, but that’s not the case! They have already brought in “heavy artillery” in the form of federal means of mass degradation. Staff propagandists daily assure citizens that the “gift” is good, they should take it and rejoice over such concern from the authorities.

The initiators of “gifting” convince Russians that the purpose of “care” is to improve the well-being of pensioners! I would like to ask: “In the lean years” (when oil prices were high and there were no international sanctions), why didn’t YOU increase the welfare of pensioners? What was stopping you?

No one would mind working longer if, after the retirement of a pensioner, his lost pension was added to his family’s budget every month. Make us happy! After all, in this way the well-being of almost every family will actually increase!

The funniest thing in this story is that the propaganda of raising the retirement age is not carried out by those who physically work for pennies all their lives. The propagandists include officials and deputies from United Russia, TV presenters of federal television channels. Their salaries are different. Pensions will also be much higher. And they can’t lift anything heavier than a briefcase with documents!

Perhaps not everyone knows that the famous singer VALENTINA TOLKUNOVA comes from Armavir. She wouldn't live to see retirement! She lived just 63 years (July 12, 1946 - March 22, 2010)

There is no point in compiling a list of ordinary citizens who did not live to see the expected increase in the retirement age. There are a huge number of them - these are our relatives, acquaintances, colleagues and neighbors.

Let's remember famous people:

EVGENY EVSTEGNEEV: October 9, 1926 - March 4, 1992 (65 years old)

ANATOLY PAPANOV: October 31, 1922 - August 5, 1987 (64 years old)

VLADIMIR BASOV: October 31, 1922 - August 5, 1987 (64 years old)

MIKAEL TARIVERDIEV: August 15, 1931 - July 25, 1996 (64 years old)

ALEXANDER DEMYANENKO: May 30, 1937 - August 22, 1999 (62 years old)

ROBERT ROZHDESTVNSKY: June 20, 1932 - August 19, 1994 (age 62)

EFIM KOPELYAN: April 12, 1912 - March 6, 1975 (62 years old)

YAN ARLAZOROV: August 26, 1947 - March 7, 2009 (61 years old)

VITALY SOLOMIN: December 12, 1941 - May 27, 2002 (60 years old)

GEORGE BURKOV: May 31, 1933 - July 19, 1990 (57 years old)

LEONID FILATOV: December 24, 1946 - October 26, 2003 (56 years old)

NATALIA GUNDAREVA: August 28, 1948 - May 15, 2005 (56 years old)

VALERY OBODZINSKY: January 24, 1942 - April 26, 1997 (55 years old)

ALEXANDER ABDULLOV: May 29, 1953 - January 3, 2008 (54 years old)

MAYA KRISTALINSKAYA: February 24, 1932 - June 19, 1985 (53 years old)

VLADIMIR MIGULYA: August 18, 1945 - February 16, 1996 (50 years old)

ANDREY MIRONOV: March 7, 1941 - August 16, 1987 (46 years old)

VASILY SHUKSHIN: July 25, 1929 - October 2, 1974 (45 years old)

EVGENY MARTYNOV: May 22, 1948 - September 3, 1990 (42 years old)

YURI BOGATYREV: March 2, 1947 - February 2, 1989 (41 years old)

OLEG DAL: May 25, 1941 - March 3, 1981 (39 years old)

ALEXANDER POCHINOK ( economist, Minister of Taxes and Duties, Minister of Labor and Social Development): January 12, 1958 - March 16, 2014 (56 years old)

EGOR GAIDAR ( Russian statesman and politician, Doctor of Economics; one of the main leaders and ideologists of economic reforms of the early 1990s in Russia): March 19, 1956 - December 16, 2009 (53 years old)

With its “gift,” the federal government raised a wave of mass protests. The authorities are trying in every possible way to downplay the significance of these protests. The Moscow rallies were mentioned on central television channels in just a few seconds. There is generally deathly silence about other events in other cities across the country!

The federal media widely covered another parallel reality - the religious procession of the authorities together with the church. Patriarch Kirill delivered a solemn speech dedicated to the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir. Another Vladimir stood nearby. Obviously, the event director’s idea was aimed at creating an association: Here he is! Here HE is - the modern embodiment of the IMAGE of Grand Duke Vladimir! How lucky we are that we live in such an era!..

Igor Guberman has the following poetic lines: “Living in a mysterious fatherland//from night to day for decades,//we drink to the Russian way of life,//where there is an image, but no life.”

Alexander Bryzgalov